The Florida Room

Stevie Griffith was born and raised in Greenville SC and holds a Theatre BA from Lander University. He began his acting career portraying young Abe Lincoln in summer outdoor theaters in the Midwest that lead to appearances at theaters throughout the south then to regional theaters. Stevie joined Actors Equity after appearing at Cincinnati Playhouse. This led to representation and a move to New York. While living there, he was given the Drama League Of New York Playwrighting Award for his first play, Tower. Stevie also began a dual career as a scenery and prop carpenter building for film, TV and stage that has endured to this day. After a move to Atlanta in the early 90’s, Stevie joined SAG and appeared in a string of TV and film roles that included an appearance as Tex in Forrest Gump. In LA, Stevie worked as an actor on TV and onstage and as a woodworker with Walt Disney Imagineering building ride vehicle prototypes, including the first working prototype for Mission Space. Over ten years, Stevie worked on over 30 attractions at all of the Disney parks. A return home to Greenville in 2015 to help care for family, Stevie opened a custom design and fabrication woodshop called Texwood, building museum exhibits, escape rooms and theatrical sets In 2024, he moved back to Toluca Lake to write plays.

Cameron Watson is a multiple award-winning theatre director and filmmaker who has carved a unique career that crosses over many genres and formats. He recently directed the Los Angeles premiere of Adam Rapp’s The Sound Inside starring Amy Brenneman at the Pasadena Playhouse. That production was named “Best Theatre of the Year” by the Los Angeles Times. Cameron helmed the American premiere of Daf James’ On the Other Hand, We’re Happy at Rogue Machine Theatre and it was named “Best Theatre of the Year” by the Los Angeles Times and won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Production. At Antaeus Theatre Company, Cameron directed Nora, The Little Foxes, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Picnic and Top Girls. Other credits include Love Letters at The Kennedy Center with Martin Sheen, Beloved and Stupid Kid at The Road Theatre, The City of Conversation at Ensemble Theatre Company, All My Sons at the Matrix Theatre, Trying, On Golden Pond, The Savannah Disputation and Grace & Glorie at the Colony Theatre, I Never Sang for My Father at the New American Theatre, I Capture the Castle at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, and Rolling with Laughter in London’s West End. He is a recent recipient of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Distinguished Achievement in Directing. Cameron wrote and directed the Miramax feature film Our Very Own, starring Allison Janney in an Independent Spirit Award-nominated performance. He created, wrote and directed the hit comedy series Break a Hip, which garnered Christina Pickles a Primetime Emmy Award for Best Actress.